The developing culture of mass private automobile ownership in Russia became a prominent platform for post‐Soviet citizen‐drivers to (re)negotiate their relationship with the state. The convergence of power, infrastructure, and modernity in automobility made salient the old Soviet promise of infrastructural and cultural development, delegitimizing the post‐Soviet contraction of the state's sphere of responsibility. On the other hand, the inherent danger and autonomy of automobile technology, combined with highly spatialized local politics, reveal a number of political mechanisms and imaginaries that make such withdrawals peculiarly legitimate. Finally, through the windshield of a private car in Russia, the state emerges as the ontology and a total social fact. This contradicts the anti‐statist, pluralist, and the localizing concepts of the state in contemporary anthropology. [automobility, accidents, the state, modernity, politics of statelessness, Russia]

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在地形中行驶

俄罗斯大众汽车拥有量的发展文化成为后苏联公民驾驶员（与政府）重新谈判其关系的重要平台。权力，基础设施和汽车现代化的融合，使苏维埃基础设施和文化发展的古老承诺变得显着，使苏联解体后的国家责任范围合法化。另一方面，汽车技术固有的危险性和自主性，再加上高度空间化的地方政治，揭示了许多使这种撤离特别合法的政治机制和想象。最后，通过在俄罗斯的私人汽车的挡风玻璃，国家作为出现在本体论和整个社会事实。这与当代人类学中的反国家主义，多元主义和国家本土化概念相矛盾。[汽车，事故，国家，现代性，无国籍政治，俄罗斯]